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Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 3: It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4: Here's Amy King.
Speaker 3: Good Monday morning.
Speaker 5: This is your wake up call for January twentieth. It's
Speaker 5: five o'clock. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
Speaker 5: iHeartRadio app. Hope you had a great weekend. I got
Speaker 5: to have a little R and R. I did a
Speaker 5: little R and R yesterday and then here I finally
Speaker 5: took down Christmas yesterday, January nineteen.
Speaker 3: That might be a new record.
Speaker 5: I got the tree out when it turned into a
Speaker 5: Christmas stick a few weeks ago, but it didn't get
Speaker 5: all the actual Christmas stuff put away until yesterday.
Speaker 3: And isn't it cool?
Speaker 5: Like I love all the decorations that you put up,
Speaker 5: but it feels like the house is much cleaner once
Speaker 5: everything gets put away, not as much clutter. So nothing
Speaker 5: big going on today, nothing at all. Okay, I'm lying
Speaker 5: a little bit. So I was talking to our temporary boss,
Speaker 5: Chris Berry on yesterday, or we were texting back and forth.
Speaker 5: So inauguration day. We've got another round of Santa Ana winds,
Speaker 5: very bad ones. They were issuing another one of those
Speaker 5: potentially dangerous situation warnings. The Israeli sees fires on hostages
Speaker 5: have been released and more to come. We're going to
Speaker 5: talk to jer Donald Miller about that in about fifteen
Speaker 5: minutes and TikTok back up and running. So nothing at all. Okay, Well,
Speaker 5: let's get started. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 5: Southern California, as I just mentioned, is bracing for another
Speaker 5: dangerous wind event that could bring us as high as
Speaker 5: one hundred miles per hour. Forecasters have issued that particularly
Speaker 5: situation warning for much of La and Ventura Counties from
Speaker 5: noon until tomorrow morning for areas including the San Gabriel,
Speaker 5: Santa Clarita, and San Fernando Valley's in the Malibu Coast.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump's being sworn in as the forty seventh President
Speaker 5: of the United States at the US Capital Rotunda. His
Speaker 5: day starts with the church service at Saint John's in DC,
Speaker 5: and then President Biden welcomes Trump for tea at the
Speaker 5: White House. The inauguration is being held inside because of
Speaker 5: the brutally cold temperatures. He's expected to be sworn in
Speaker 5: at about eleven forty five Eastern time, which just hours
Speaker 5: left in office. President Biden has issued pardons for Anthony Fauci,
Speaker 5: General Millie, and the entire January sixth Committee, using his
Speaker 5: presidential power against what has been called potential revenge by
Speaker 5: the incoming president. Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, by
Speaker 5: the way, is going to be giving us an inauguration
Speaker 5: day preview that's coming up at five fifty, and then
Speaker 5: we're going to check in with Karen Travers in just
Speaker 5: a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: She's also in DC ahead of the inauguration.
Speaker 5: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 5: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Extreme wind is
Speaker 5: expected to return to southern California. ABC's Alex Stone says
Speaker 5: the region is under yet another PDS red flag fire
Speaker 5: warning because of it.
Speaker 2: This wind event is beginning to look more and more severe,
Speaker 2: with peak wins hitting tonight into Tuesday and possibly close
Speaker 2: to the one hundred mile per hour incredible winds we
Speaker 2: dealt with close to two weeks ago that made the
Speaker 2: Palisades and Eaten fires explode.
Speaker 5: Southern California Edison has notified some customers that their power
Speaker 5: could be shut off again today to prevent fires. The
Speaker 5: particularly Dangerous Situation red flag warning is in effect for
Speaker 5: tomorrow morning in areas as I mentioned, including the San Gabriel,
Speaker 5: Santa Clarida, and San Fernando Valleys in Malibu Coast. News
Speaker 5: brought to you by Semper Solaris firefighter has been working
Speaker 5: to surround more of the fires in La County as
Speaker 5: the winds expect to pick up. The fire that started
Speaker 5: in Eaton Canyon above Alta Dinas now eight percent surrounded.
Speaker 5: Such great news. The one in Pacific Palisades is fifty
Speaker 5: six percent surrounded. More evacuation orders and warnings were lifted
Speaker 5: over the weekend, but some mandatory orders are still in place.
Speaker 5: Official state teams have completed damage inspections for ninety eight
Speaker 5: percent of the buildings within the Eton fire perimeter. Governor
Speaker 5: Newsom says he'll go after anyone caught trying to rip
Speaker 5: people off in the aftermath of the fires. He said
Speaker 5: during an iHeartRadio special California town hall yesterday, the price
Speaker 5: gouging that's been going on, especially with rents, is unconscionable.
Speaker 6: If they were advertising a rent before this tragedy, they
Speaker 6: cannot charge these absorbent and prices. They cannot.
Speaker 5: Newsom said it's illegal and anyone trying to take advantage
Speaker 5: of people who've lost their homes by bumping up remps
Speaker 5: rents will be held accountable. President elect Trump's as he
Speaker 5: plans to visit southern California this week who to see
Speaker 5: the damage caused by the wildfire.
Speaker 7: He shared the news Sunday during his rally at the
Speaker 7: Capitol One Arena in downtown Washington, DC ahead of today's
Speaker 7: in ong. The trip will likely be his first after
Speaker 7: returning to the White House for his second term.
Speaker 8: I also want to send our love to everyone affected
Speaker 8: by the terrible wildfires raging in California.
Speaker 4: We're praying for you all.
Speaker 8: We love you all.
Speaker 9: We're going to be there very soon.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go out there on Friday to see it.
Speaker 7: He also stated, we're bringing in some of the best
Speaker 7: builders in the world to assist and we'll get things
Speaker 7: moving back. Brigita Degasino, KAFI News.
Speaker 5: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 2: Karen.
Speaker 5: President elect Trump says there are three themes for his inauguration.
Speaker 3: What are they?
Speaker 10: He says there, unity, strength, and fairness, and we're told
Speaker 10: that the overarching theme will be restoring confidence. He's expected
Speaker 10: today to call for a revolution of common sense, and
Speaker 10: according to excerps that senior advisors provided, he's going to
Speaker 10: say that he'll return to the presidency confident and optimistic,
Speaker 10: that we're at the start of a thrilling new era
Speaker 10: of national success, and he'll say a tide of change
Speaker 10: is sweeping the country. We expect that the President is
Speaker 10: going to take a lot of executive action today. Some
Speaker 10: he'll sign right at the Capitol after he's sworn in.
Speaker 10: Others he'll sign a Capital One Arena, which is a
Speaker 10: downtown basketball hockey arena in town where they've moved the
Speaker 10: parade from outside to inside. And then we expect him
Speaker 10: to do more executive orders later today here at the
Speaker 10: White House. So a very busy day of pomp and
Speaker 10: circumstance that starts in about a half an hour, and
Speaker 10: then the president elect, then presidents wants to get down
Speaker 10: to business.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned executive orders.
Speaker 5: What are some of the what are some of the
Speaker 5: ones that we're expecting to come out right out of
Speaker 5: the gate.
Speaker 10: He's told ABC that immigration would be a big focus,
Speaker 10: and his senior advisor, Stephen Miller, who had briefed a
Speaker 10: small group of Republican lawmakers over the weekend, said look
Speaker 10: for things like declaring a national emergency around the US
Speaker 10: Mexico border, designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 10: He also is expected to repeal executive action from the
Speaker 10: Biden administration on emission standards and electric vehicles, as well
Speaker 10: as restrictions and limits on offshore drilling on federal lands.
Speaker 5: Okay, And so as the day goes, he's got his schedule.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was looking at the schedule and it's
Speaker 5: like in some cases minute by minute.
Speaker 3: So once he takes the oath of office.
Speaker 5: Then he'll deliver his inaugural address, right, okay, and then
Speaker 5: it's off to the White House to start getting work done.
Speaker 10: No, he goes inside the Capitol for a bit and
Speaker 10: there's a luncheon that is held up there that's tradition
Speaker 10: every four years, and then he's going to head down
Speaker 10: to Capitol one Arena downtown where like I said, they
Speaker 10: moved the parade from outside to inside. It's still not
Speaker 10: clear exactly what that's going to look like but marching bands,
Speaker 10: all the things that would have been marching down Pennsylvania
Speaker 10: Avenue and performing for the President and First Lady would
Speaker 10: be inside. And then he'll get back to the White
Speaker 10: House probably late afternoon, and do some business in the
Speaker 10: Oval Office in the early evening before heading out to
Speaker 10: the ball tonight.
Speaker 5: Okay, and I know we've got you for about thirty
Speaker 5: more seconds, TikTok. He's signaling that he wants to push
Speaker 5: back the law that bans TikTok.
Speaker 3: So TikTok's back up and running.
Speaker 10: Now, yes, you know they started it back up again
Speaker 10: last night. I mean, but here's the thing, Like, it
Speaker 10: wasn't necessarily like something he could do through executive action
Speaker 10: today because it was a law that was passed by
Speaker 10: Congress and signed into law by the presidents. You can't
Speaker 10: just undo that with executive action. TikTok didn't necessarily have
Speaker 10: to shut down the way they did and then go
Speaker 10: back up and running the way they did. But that's
Speaker 10: how it played out.
Speaker 3: Over the weekend, and we'll see.
Speaker 5: I mean, is there going to be pushback because he,
Speaker 5: like you said, he legally can't do what he's trying
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 10: Right now, the law is in effect, and now it's
Speaker 10: a matter of whether the Trump administration enforces it, and
Speaker 10: that's what the big decision would.
Speaker 4: Have to be.
Speaker 5: All Right, ABC's Karen Travers have a wonderful inauguration day.
Speaker 10: Thanks, have a great day.
Speaker 5: Okay, Let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 5: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some people
Speaker 5: in California say they're worried about being deported with President
Speaker 5: Trump in office. California Attorney General Rob Bonta says he
Speaker 5: stands by immigrants.
Speaker 3: You can be sure that US California's attorney general.
Speaker 6: If Trump attacks the rights of our immigrants, I will
Speaker 6: be there. If Trump breaks the law, we will see
Speaker 6: him in court.
Speaker 5: The Wall Street Journal reports the incoming administration intends to
Speaker 5: kick off a large scale immigration raid tomorrow. It's expected
Speaker 5: to start in Chicago and then head to other big cities.
Speaker 5: A man's been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in
Speaker 5: Long Beach, and police say he may have attacked other women.
Speaker 5: Police say a woman was walking near an alley near
Speaker 5: Tenth Street and Pacific Avenue last Wednesday around one am
Speaker 5: when a man approached and attacked her and then took off.
Speaker 5: The man was arrested Saturday. In Wilmington, a pedestrian's been
Speaker 5: hit and killed on the one ten Freeway. HP says
Speaker 5: the person was in the express lanes near West Lawson
Speaker 5: Avenue yesterday around five point fifteen. It's not clear what
Speaker 5: actually it was Saturday around five to fifteen pm. It's
Speaker 5: not clear what the person was doing on the freeway.
Speaker 5: The Menendez brothers re sentencing hearing is being delayed because
Speaker 5: of the fires in La County. DA Nathan Hawkman announced
Speaker 5: that the hearing that was scheduled for January thirtieth and
Speaker 5: thirty first has been pushed back to March twentieth and
Speaker 5: twenty first. Lyle and Eric Menendez have been serving life
Speaker 5: sentences for the murder of their parents at their home
Speaker 5: in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Last October, then
Speaker 5: District Attorney George Gascon recommended re sentencing for the brothers,
Speaker 5: who claimed they were sexually abused by their parents. All
Speaker 5: commercial poultry operations within a six mile radius in Georgia
Speaker 5: are in quarantine. ABC's Faith Abu Bay says the plants
Speaker 5: will have to undergo testing for the next couple of
Speaker 5: weeks because of a positive case of bird flu.
Speaker 11: Official stress that the virus has not made it into
Speaker 11: the food supply chain, but there are still urgent concerns
Speaker 11: for Georgia. This is the first confirmed bird flucase in
Speaker 11: a commercial operation.
Speaker 5: Officials a chicken will still be sold in stores in
Speaker 5: Georgia during the suspension of wholesale poultry sales. As we
Speaker 5: mentioned a little bit ago, Governor Newsom held a town hall.
Speaker 5: You may have heard it yesterday morning on CAFI. It
Speaker 5: was broadcast on almost sixty iHeart stations around California and
Speaker 5: I listened to it, and my takeaway from it was
Speaker 5: that I think he did a really good job, I think,
Speaker 5: which I'm not anxious to say, because I don't think
Speaker 5: overall this has all been handled great.
Speaker 3: But I think he gave.
Speaker 5: Some good answers, he made some promises, and I think
Speaker 5: it'll be really interesting to see if he keeps those promises,
Speaker 5: because you've got a lot of people who've lost everything,
Speaker 5: and a lot of people who are worried about what
Speaker 5: their near future and their more distant future looks like.
Speaker 5: As they were cover from the fires, and so they
Speaker 5: set it up so that he had questions presented to
Speaker 5: him and had conversations with people affected by the fires.
Speaker 5: Some of them had lost everything and they had some
Speaker 5: really great questions. One question was when can I go home?
Speaker 5: And Newsom said they are working really hard to try
Speaker 5: to get people back.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're moving, heaving and earth to get the
Speaker 6: damage assessment work done in the Palisades and then get
Speaker 6: the hazardous material material, which is phase one of the
Speaker 6: debris removal done within the next sixty days.
Speaker 3: He says, they're also putting up a lot of money
Speaker 3: to get things going.
Speaker 6: We are doing a two and a half billion dollar
Speaker 6: state supplemental to provide relief and flexibility to fill in
Speaker 6: the gap.
Speaker 3: And that's that's two and a half billion dollars. That's
Speaker 3: from the state.
Speaker 5: But overall, I think some of the estimates now are
Speaker 5: coming in at about two hundred and fifty billion dollars
Speaker 5: when all this said had none. One of the fire
Speaker 5: victims is she's been asked to take paid time off
Speaker 5: while her employer is closed because of the fires. Newsom
Speaker 5: says that doesn't sound right and says they're working to
Speaker 5: get money to the workers who are displaced.
Speaker 6: We've expanded paid support, and we actually just expanded in January,
Speaker 6: and this is important higher reimbursement for lower wage workers.
Speaker 6: That was a law that just went in effect in January.
Speaker 6: But that's something we're going to have to monitor. And
Speaker 6: I appreciate you bringing that up specifically as an example
Speaker 6: of how some businesses may not necessarily be protecting their
Speaker 6: employees as they should.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, the woman had said that she was getting
Speaker 5: unemployment now and that's three or four hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 5: I don't remember what the exact number was, but normally
Speaker 5: she makes about twelve hundred a week, so that is
Speaker 5: obviously a pretty large gap.
Speaker 3: Governor says they're working on that.
Speaker 5: Also, Newsom talked to a high school student who said
Speaker 5: how tough it was that he hasn't been class and
Speaker 5: they said that they're allowing students to transfer to other
Speaker 5: schools if they're affected by fires.
Speaker 6: Allowing flexibility so you can transfer to another district nearby district.
Speaker 6: And there were issues around class sizes and other technical
Speaker 6: state issues that we were able to wave through, and.
Speaker 5: All of La County gets a reprieve in filing their taxes.
Speaker 5: That April fifteenth deadline's been pushed back.
Speaker 6: Have pushed back all state taxes till October fifteenth.
Speaker 5: And also property taxes if you've been affected by the fires.
Speaker 6: We pushed back property taxes till April twenty twenty six,
Speaker 6: and people can apply for a four year deferral on
Speaker 6: interest and penalties related to property taxes.
Speaker 5: And one of the really interesting things that I believe
Speaker 5: he talked about was one of the people who lost
Speaker 5: their home in Altadena said, you know what, Altadena has
Speaker 5: this very cool vibe to it, you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's a lot of older, older homes, and it has
Speaker 5: this great fear to it, and they're really worried that
Speaker 5: as they rebuild, they're going to lose all of that,
Speaker 5: and that like green spaces are going to be taken away,
Speaker 5: and they're going to put like high density housing.
Speaker 3: In that area.
Speaker 5: And he says he's going to the people of Altadena
Speaker 5: are going to decide how they want to rebuild, and
Speaker 5: he's going to make sure that it's done how people
Speaker 5: want it, not necessarily how the state wants it. So
Speaker 5: it's going to be really interesting to watch as all
Speaker 5: this comes together. The Santa Clarita and San Fernando Valleys,
Speaker 5: along with the Malibu Coast mountains and valleys including Alta,
Speaker 5: Dina and Glendora, Orange and Riverside County all expecting strong
Speaker 5: Santa Ana wins with red flag warnings and effect from
Speaker 5: this morning through tomorrow, gus up to one hundred miles
Speaker 5: per hour possible in the mountains. TikTok says it'll restore
Speaker 5: service in the US after getting assurances from President elect Trump.
Speaker 5: The company said in a statement that Trump assured its
Speaker 5: leadership they would face no penalties for continuing to provide
Speaker 5: Americans access to the.
Speaker 3: App the first time.
Speaker 5: Hostages released by Hamas are being treated at a hospital
Speaker 5: in Tel Aviv. IDF officials say the three Israeli women
Speaker 5: appeared to be in good health. In fact, let's check
Speaker 5: in right now with ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: Giordana, it's a big day in Israel. It is a
Speaker 3: big day.
Speaker 8: It is a happy day, a joyous day, a moment
Speaker 8: that everyone's holding on to because, as you know, it's
Speaker 8: been an incredibly difficult fifteen months. Much of the country
Speaker 8: is still traumatized by what happened on October seventh. But
Speaker 8: here three young women released by Hamas in a rather
Speaker 8: quick handover. Within about thirty five minutes, they went from
Speaker 8: Hamas the Red Cross to the Israeli Army into Israeli custody,
Speaker 8: and shortly after drove out of the Gaza, stra saw
Speaker 8: their mothers at a base of doctors say that they
Speaker 8: are in stable condition. They were air they were flown
Speaker 8: by helicopter to a hospital outside of Tel Aviv, and
Speaker 8: there they were reunited with their siblings and their fathers
Speaker 8: and cousins and friends. And really, these three young women,
Speaker 8: I don't you know, the nation didn't really know. No
Speaker 8: one knew what their condition would be like. And they
Speaker 8: came out fighting from Gaza. They were defiant, they were buoyant,
Speaker 8: they seemed energized. And the doctors again say they're in
Speaker 8: stable condition. They're still running all kinds of tests, and
Speaker 8: I'm sure amy were going to hear kind of the
Speaker 8: darker details of their captivity in the coming weeks. That's
Speaker 8: what will come out over the length over the coming weeks.
Speaker 8: But right now everyone is just so relieved that they
Speaker 8: made it out. They're the first three of thirty three
Speaker 8: Israeli hostage. It's set to be released over the next
Speaker 8: six weeks. You know, on the Gaz inside and in
Speaker 8: the West Bank and East Rusalem. Israel released ninety Palestinians
Speaker 8: that were jailed here for various crimes and some held
Speaker 8: without without being tried. Yet they were released to the
Speaker 8: West Bank and East Jerusalem. Celebrations there in Gaza, of course,
Speaker 8: even amid really the ruins of Gaza after this war.
Speaker 8: People happy that they can walk freely and feel safe,
Speaker 8: which is something that you know, everyone takes for granted
Speaker 8: when you're when you're in a war zone like Gaza,
Speaker 8: you know you can be killed because you're next to
Speaker 8: a Hamas fighter and you don't even know it. So
Speaker 8: today a lot of feeling of relief and safety in
Speaker 8: the Gaza Strip and a lot of aid. Six hundred
Speaker 8: trucks made it into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the
Speaker 8: first day of the seafire, and it's holding today on
Speaker 8: day two.
Speaker 5: Okay, I wanted to ask you about the aid, which
Speaker 5: is great news that that's finally getting in, because as
Speaker 5: we've talked over the last months, you know, there was
Speaker 5: you were telling us that maybe like one hundred would
Speaker 5: get in a day, which is not anywhere near what
Speaker 5: they needed. So do you hear six hundred in a
Speaker 5: day is good. But do they have trucks just like
Speaker 5: lined up at the borders waiting to go in or
Speaker 5: how how is that all going to play out?
Speaker 8: There are trucks lined up at the border, the Israelis
Speaker 8: are checking the trucks and then they're being waved in.
Speaker 8: The difference is now there's not active combat, you know,
Speaker 8: in parts of the Gaza strips, so they're able to
Speaker 8: the trucks are able to move without getting stopped. And
Speaker 8: the UN groups and Angios are there. They have a
Speaker 8: stronger presence on the streets again because there's not combat,
Speaker 8: and they're able to direct and distribute the aid. And
Speaker 8: Hamas which and other militant groups have been looting the aid,
Speaker 8: they appear to be you know, I would say that
Speaker 8: some of that has stopped because of course the world
Speaker 8: now is watching very closely what happens with the aid
Speaker 8: that's coming in. It will be critical to you know,
Speaker 8: feed people who've been facing hunger for this entire war.
Speaker 8: There were pockets of the Gossly Strip where you know,
Speaker 8: there was just almost impossible to deliver aid, and you know,
Speaker 8: there's the winter has set in. People need blankets and
Speaker 8: sleeping bags and coats and all of that will get
Speaker 8: in quicker now. So I think, you know, there's a
Speaker 8: sense of relief that for now, at least there is
Speaker 8: a pause in the fighting. And many around the world,
Speaker 8: and many will work, especially President Trump, I think, will
Speaker 8: work to see that this first phase of the Seasfire
Speaker 8: rolls into the second part of the Seasfire, where a
Speaker 8: negotiated end to the war, a negotiated full withdrawal of
Speaker 8: Israeli troops will happen. And really the most important thing
Speaker 8: amy is that a replacement for or Hamas will come
Speaker 8: in to govern the Gaza strip.
Speaker 3: That is key, all right, and.
Speaker 5: We'll be talking about that as we move along. But
Speaker 5: for right now, we have a ceasefire, we have the
Speaker 5: first hostages released in eight is getting in.
Speaker 3: So that's all good news. Jordana Miller, thank you so.
Speaker 12: Much, great news.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you.
Speaker 5: Tucson talkson President elect Trump is about to be sworn
Speaker 5: into his second term in office. He told supporters at
Speaker 5: a rally in Washington last night that he was getting
Speaker 5: ready to take more than two hundred executive actions on
Speaker 5: his first days back.
Speaker 6: I will act with historic speed and strength and fix
Speaker 6: every single crisis facing our country.
Speaker 10: We have to do it.
Speaker 5: Trump says immigration is first on his list. He's expected
Speaker 5: to declare a national emergency on the US Mexico border,
Speaker 5: order troops to build more infrastructure along the border, and
Speaker 5: relaunch his Remain in Mexico policy for people trying to
Speaker 5: enter the US. Cal State Domingius Hill's political science professor
Speaker 5: Chris hollinbrook tells KFI, while Sacramento has been combative toward Trump,
Speaker 5: there is a chance relationship could be more cordial this
Speaker 5: time around, a.
Speaker 12: Little more accepting of Okay, he's the president for the
Speaker 12: next four years and this is just how it's going
Speaker 12: to be. So things might be a little more mellow
Speaker 12: between the state and DC this time now.
Speaker 5: Alan Brooks says while Trump's style probably won't be much different,
Speaker 5: his substance might be. A forty year tradition in La
Speaker 5: has been postponed.
Speaker 9: The Kingdom Day Parade, which was scheduled for today, is
Speaker 9: a celebration of the dream and legacy of doctor Martin
Speaker 9: Luther King Junior. However, the event got pushed back about
Speaker 9: a month because of the wildfires in the La County area.
Speaker 9: Rescheduling for the event is set for February seventeenth, which
Speaker 9: is also President's Day and right in the middle of
Speaker 9: Black History Month. The parade will march down on MLK
Speaker 9: and Crenshaw Boulevards and be broadcast on live television. The
Speaker 9: theme this year is peace and Unity. Let it start
Speaker 9: with us, Andrew Caravella KFI News when we come back.
Speaker 5: This is the forty seventh time the US has sworn
Speaker 5: in a president. Happening in four hours, four and a
Speaker 5: half hours from now. We're going to take a look
Speaker 5: back at some of the other inaugurations and there's some
Speaker 5: I'll call them fun facts.
Speaker 3: And was like, fun facts? Is it fun?
Speaker 5: And I said, yeah, inaugurations are fun, okay. La Ventura,
Speaker 5: Orange Riverside counties all under red flag warnings from this
Speaker 5: morning through tomorrow. Forecasters have warned of particularly dangerous situation wins,
Speaker 5: especially in the mountains and valleys. Officials are urging residents
Speaker 5: to review evacuation plans and make sure emergency kits are
Speaker 5: stocked with needed items should they have to evacuate.
Speaker 3: I just put my go bag away.
Speaker 5: I guess I'm going to get it out again because
Speaker 5: they are saying that these winds are going to be
Speaker 5: really really bad. Two more people have been arrested for
Speaker 5: allegedly impersonating firefighters in the Palisades Fire Zone. Laped officers
Speaker 5: patrolling the area say they saw a truck that did
Speaker 5: not appear to be legitimate. A man and woman in
Speaker 5: the truck were wearing cal fire gear and claimed to
Speaker 5: be from the Roaring River Fire Department in Oregon. I'm
Speaker 5: from Oregon. There is no Roaring River Fire Department.
Speaker 2: I saw the story.
Speaker 3: They actually bought an entire fire truck. Yeah, they got
Speaker 3: it at an auction or something. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The Rams have been eliminated from the NFL playoffs after
Speaker 5: losing to the Philadelphia Eagles twenty eight to twenty two yesterday.
Speaker 5: Philly will host the NFC East rival Commanders in the
Speaker 5: Conference Championship Game next Sunday for a spot in Super
Speaker 5: Bowl fifty nine. At six poh five, it's handle on
Speaker 5: the news.
Speaker 3: Pardon me.
Speaker 5: President Biden's parting shot before Trump takes office. Later today,
Speaker 5: if I point fifty, We're going to check in with
Speaker 5: kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. He's in DC to
Speaker 5: get a little inauguration preview. The festivities have already begun. Actually,
Speaker 5: Trump's about to leave the Blairhouse to head to a
Speaker 5: church service. So taking a look back at inaugurations, because
Speaker 5: this is the only forty seventh time in our country's
Speaker 5: history that we've done it. Here's the here's the oath.
Speaker 5: I do solemnly swear or a firm that I will
Speaker 5: faithfully execute the office of President of the United States,
Speaker 5: and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect,
Speaker 5: and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 3: That's it. That's the Oah. It's like twenty four words.
Speaker 5: Okay, so we know that they moved stuff inside because
Speaker 5: it's so freaking cold. I think it was like a
Speaker 5: forecast time of about twenty degrees and then you add
Speaker 5: in windchill and well downright frigid. So they're going to
Speaker 5: be in the capital rotunda today. So we took a
Speaker 5: look back at weather and Ronald Reagan's inaugurations hold the
Speaker 5: record for both the hottest and the coldest inaugurations. So
Speaker 5: the first time he was inaugurated on January twentieth, nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty one, that was the warmest inauguration day. It was
Speaker 5: fifty five degrees. Doesn't seem very warm, but for Washington,
Speaker 5: d c. In January not bad. His second inauguration January
Speaker 5: twenty first, nineteen eighty five, was the coldest on record.
Speaker 3: It was seven degrees and he went indoors right, and
Speaker 3: he went indoors right.
Speaker 5: So this inauguration is the first time in like forty
Speaker 5: years that they've gone indoors. Well, seven degrees. I understand
Speaker 5: it's going to be twenty They could have been outside.
Speaker 5: It'll be interesting to see how many people actually turn
Speaker 5: out for in the rotunda. And as I mentioned, when
Speaker 5: I started reading the oath, they either say I do
Speaker 5: solemnly swear or affirm. Well, that happened because Franklin Pierce
Speaker 5: was inaugurated in eighteen fifty three and he was the
Speaker 5: only president he said affirm rather than swear to become
Speaker 5: the office of president, to become the president. But apparently
Speaker 5: they said, well that's close enough, so they wrote it
Speaker 5: in so the president can say either one that he wants.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: Most of the presidents are sworn in by the Chief
Speaker 5: Justice of the United States Supreme Supreme Court, which is
Speaker 5: going to happen today. Roberts is going to be swearing
Speaker 5: him in and who's jd Vance is being sworn in
Speaker 5: by Kavanaugh, I believe.
Speaker 3: Okay, So.
Speaker 5: Most of the time it's by the Chief Justice, but
Speaker 5: there are a couple of exceptions. When Warren Harding died
Speaker 5: in office, Calvin Coolidge was at his family's home in Vermont,
Speaker 5: and they didn't have any electricity, they didn't have a phone,
Speaker 5: so he got word of Harding's death by a courier,
Speaker 5: and in the early morning hours of August third, nineteen
Speaker 5: twenty three, Coolidge was sworn in by his father, who
Speaker 5: was a notary public. The ceremony conducted by Kerosene Lamp.
Speaker 5: The new president reportedly went to bed afterwards, okay.
Speaker 3: And then the first woman.
Speaker 5: To sign to swear in a president happened after the
Speaker 5: assassination of President Kennedy.
Speaker 3: Lyndon B.
Speaker 5: Johnson took the oath of office on board Air Force
Speaker 5: one on November twenty second, nineteen sixty three. Sarah Hughes
Speaker 5: administered the oh She became the first woman to inaugurate
Speaker 5: a president. And did you know that presidents used to
Speaker 5: wear top hats, and that wasn't only in the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 5: but they stopped that because let's say John F. Kennedy
Speaker 5: was the last president to wear a top hat during
Speaker 5: his inauguration in nineteen sixty one. So it started back
Speaker 5: at least in eighteen eighty one, and they did it
Speaker 5: for every inauguration until then. And then Lyndon Johnson came
Speaker 5: up and he said, yeah, not so much. And in
Speaker 5: nineteen sixty five he did not wear a top hat,
Speaker 5: and the tradition was tossed aside.
Speaker 3: Okay, just a couple more.
Speaker 5: Andrew Johnson was inaugurated as a vice president in eighteen
Speaker 5: sixty five, and he was totally drunk. He'd had typhoid
Speaker 5: fever and apparently drank whiskey to try to try to
Speaker 5: numb the pain.
Speaker 3: Except he drank a little too much and he ended
Speaker 3: up slurring through his oath. It's too bad. Those aren't
Speaker 3: good old days. But it's too bad we don't have
Speaker 3: a video of that. Right.
Speaker 5: On March fourth, eighteen seventy three, Ulysses S. Grant's second
Speaker 5: inauguration was so cold the food and the champagne froze,
Speaker 5: and so did hundreds of caged canaries that.
Speaker 3: Were brought in for the reception. Wow, lots of dead birds. Okay.
Speaker 5: John Quincy Adams didn't take his oath on a bible.
Speaker 5: He used a law book instead that had the Constitution
Speaker 5: in it. That's your option. And here's one more fun one.
Speaker 5: Jelly bellies. So remember when Ronald Reagan was the governor.
Speaker 5: He when he was governor of California, he got into
Speaker 5: jelly bellies and it was to help him because he's
Speaker 5: quit smoking. So in nineteen eighty one, three tons of red, white,
Speaker 5: and blue jelly bellies were used in Reagan's inauguration and
Speaker 5: the blueberry jelly belly, the blue one was created specifically
Speaker 5: for Reagan's inauguration. They didn't have a blue one that
Speaker 5: blue before them.
Speaker 3: You're just some fun thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 5: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news and newsroom.
Speaker 5: President Biden has issued some last minute pardons. They include
Speaker 5: doctor Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milly, and members of
Speaker 5: Congress's January sixth Committee. The pardons are meant to guard
Speaker 5: against potential revenge by the incoming Trump administration. Governor Newsom
Speaker 5: says he's working with the Employment Development Department to get
Speaker 5: extra money into areas around La affected by the fires.
Speaker 5: He spoke yesterday with people affected by the fires during
Speaker 5: a town hall meeting hosted by iHeartRadio. This woman, Julia,
Speaker 5: says she lost her job because of the fires and
Speaker 5: is now having a tough time.
Speaker 8: Unemployment is only paying me two hundred dollars a week,
Speaker 8: whereas at the restaurant I worked, I made twelve hundred.
Speaker 2: Dollars a week.
Speaker 5: Newsom says it's going to take some time to get
Speaker 5: things going again. A footwear company that has made shoes
Speaker 5: for every US president since eighteen fifty is displaying some
Speaker 5: of its fancy footwork in downtown d C. The Johnston
Speaker 5: and Murphy Presidential Footwear Exhibit features fifteen pairs of shoes
Speaker 5: made for presidents like Abraham Link, Theodore Roosevelt, and John F.
Speaker 3: Kennedy.
Speaker 5: Shoes created for Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden
Speaker 5: are also part of the exhibit, which is open daily
Speaker 5: at the Mayflower Hotel until January twenty ninth. Red flag
Speaker 5: parking restrictions will go into effect in the cities of
Speaker 5: La and Pasadena to make sure narrow or winding roads
Speaker 5: are clear in case firefighters need to access the area.
Speaker 5: Red flag warnings are in effect for much of La
Speaker 5: and Ventura Counties and the inland Empire starting later this
Speaker 5: morning continuing into tomorrow. Governor Newsom says his administration is
Speaker 5: going after price gougers taking advantage of residents affected by
Speaker 5: the wildfires. In a town hall hosted by iHeartMedia yesterday,
Speaker 5: Newsom asked Angelinos to notify authorities if landlords try to
Speaker 5: charge high rents in the aftermath, he says he wants
Speaker 5: names and will go after them Outgoing Vice President Kamala
Speaker 5: Harris and Second Gentleman Doug m Hoff are expected to
Speaker 5: return to California and their home in Brentwood after today's inauguration.
Speaker 5: M Hoff is expected to resume his legal career. Harris
Speaker 5: hasn't committed to it, but there are rumblings she could
Speaker 5: run for governor of California in twenty twenty six. We're
Speaker 5: just minutes away from a handle on the news this morning.
Speaker 5: TikTok is back online, even though technically now it's banned
Speaker 5: in the US. Let's say good morning now to kfi's
Speaker 5: White House correspondent John Decker. John, we're about what three
Speaker 5: and a half hours from the swearing in of President electro.
Speaker 4: That's right, and indoors this year because of the bitterly
Speaker 4: cold temperatures here in the nation's capital. So the swearing
Speaker 4: in President Trump's inaugural address all taking place inside the
Speaker 4: Capital Rotunda as opposed to being outside. And I'm thankful
Speaker 4: of that because it feels like it's in the single
Speaker 4: digits here today in Washington.
Speaker 5: Okay, So tell us, aside from the super cold, tell
Speaker 5: us what it's like in DC. Are there's still people
Speaker 5: out like lining up outside or you know, gathering outside
Speaker 5: the rotunda and are there big screens or how are
Speaker 5: they going to handle that?
Speaker 3: So there's just nobody.
Speaker 4: There, no you know, I think that all of those
Speaker 4: individuals who travel to Washington, DC hoping to watch the
Speaker 4: swearing in in person or having to make alternative arrangements,
Speaker 4: there will be an opportunity for about twenty thousand of
Speaker 4: Donald Trump supporters to watch the swearing in from the
Speaker 4: Capital one arena. They'll do a live view in terms
Speaker 4: of what's happening at the Capitol. But that's just twenty thousand,
Speaker 4: and you know, you're talking about perhaps two hundred thousand
Speaker 4: people at the very least that travel here for the
Speaker 4: president's inauguration. I don't know where the vast majority of
Speaker 4: those people are going to be watching the swearing in.
Speaker 4: It's in their hotel is likely going to be indoors
Speaker 4: because traffic because security is just so tight around the
Speaker 4: Capital complex right now, and that will be the case
Speaker 4: throughout the day.
Speaker 5: Okay, so even if they wanted to go and just
Speaker 5: gather are outside, they can't.
Speaker 4: No, that's right. The security as such that they can't
Speaker 4: get pretty much anywhere near the Capitol. I'm directly across
Speaker 4: the street from the Capitol. I'm in the ray Burn
Speaker 4: House office building, which has a direct view of the Capitol.
Speaker 4: But just to even get to where I am, you
Speaker 4: need a special type of credential, and that is unfortunate
Speaker 4: again for those people who are really looking forward to
Speaker 4: being here for the swearing in of Donald Trump. You
Speaker 4: know that they those same people in many cases came
Speaker 4: here eight years ago to see Donald Trump being sworn
Speaker 4: in as the forty fifth president, and they won't get
Speaker 4: that same type of opportunity today because of these could temperatures.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the kind of walk us through it, because
Speaker 3: we know that.
Speaker 5: Infact, I'm looking at pictures of Washington, DC, and it's
Speaker 5: absolutely stunningly beautiful there today. So just cold, but otherwise
Speaker 5: the sun is out and it's just frigid.
Speaker 3: So what is he up to? He's running around town.
Speaker 5: He's about to go over to the White House to
Speaker 5: have tea with the president or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's right. So this morning was a church
Speaker 4: service that Donald Trump and the future First Lady Malania
Speaker 4: Trump attended right across the street from the White House,
Speaker 4: Saint John's Church. Then there will be a tea at
Speaker 4: the White House that will be attended by Donald Trump
Speaker 4: and Joe Biden and also the First Lady. I'm sorry, well,
Speaker 4: the First Lady will be there as well as will
Speaker 4: Vice President Kamala Harris. Around ten thirty Eastern time today,
Speaker 4: so a little less than two hours from now is
Speaker 4: when they'll make their way over to the capital, which
Speaker 4: is a short distance when you're in a motorcade and
Speaker 4: when all the streets are shut down. That that will
Speaker 4: be for the beginning part of all of the ceremonies
Speaker 4: surrounding the swearing in of Donald Trump followed by his
Speaker 4: inaugural address.
Speaker 5: Okay, he do we have any idea how long he's
Speaker 5: going to talk, because we know how he likes to talk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, you know, it might be a forty
Speaker 4: five minutes in terms of a prepared text, but as
Speaker 4: you know, he does like to go off the teleprompter,
Speaker 4: so it could be a little bit longer. And of
Speaker 4: course he doesn't have to worry about the cold temperature,
Speaker 4: so he can go on as long as he wants.
Speaker 4: On hand for the president's inaugural address will be every
Speaker 4: former living president from Bill Clinton all the way up
Speaker 4: until Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Also on hand for
Speaker 4: the swearing in will be Donald Trump's very first vice president,
Speaker 4: Mike Pence. He'll see his former boss Donald Trump being
Speaker 4: sworn and that's got to be pretty interesting for him.
Speaker 3: Pretty monumental day when you think about it.
Speaker 5: I mean, like this whole peaceful transfer of power and
Speaker 5: how it dates back to when we became a country,
Speaker 5: and it's a pretty amazing tradition that we do.
Speaker 4: It is you know, I look forward to it every
Speaker 4: four years, you know, especially when it's a new administration
Speaker 4: because of all the newness associated with it. This is
Speaker 4: my eighth presidential inauguration. It never gets sold. I'm disappointed,
Speaker 4: you know that the weather didn't cooperate today. The last
Speaker 4: time that we've had an indoor inauguration was forty years ago,
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty five, for Ronald Reagan's second inauguration.
Speaker 5: John Decker in DC kfi's white House correspondent, buckle up.
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a wild ride, and
Speaker 5: we'll be talking to you a lot in the coming days, weeks,
Speaker 5: in next few years.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Amy, really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Take care.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 5: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. More phony firefighters
Speaker 5: have been busted in LA. They were in an old
Speaker 5: fire truck Saturday in the Palisades fire Area.
Speaker 2: Thirty one year old Dustin Neil and forty four year
Speaker 2: old Jennifer Neil claimed to be from the Roaring River
Speaker 2: Fire Department and Oregon. Some research showed that fire department
Speaker 2: does not exist and that the fire truck was bought
Speaker 2: at auction.
Speaker 5: ABC's Alex Stone says the pair was wearing CalFire shirts.
Speaker 5: They also helmets and radios. They were arrested for impersonating firefighters.
Speaker 5: Officials say the man has a criminal history in Oregon.
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Speaker 5: This Mlkday is also Big Sunday's annual clothing drive and
Speaker 5: community breakfast day. The priority of this year's event is
Speaker 5: people affected by the wildfires in the LA area. Big
Speaker 5: Sunday founder and executive director David Levinson tells KFI they've
Speaker 5: been helping people like one woman whose house burned down.
Speaker 12: The one feature is looking for we're new pajamas for
Speaker 12: her little girl. Have only started a whole pajama drive
Speaker 12: now for little kids because your pajamas are important when
Speaker 12: you're four years.
Speaker 8: Old, he says.
Speaker 5: Anyone can register to help by going to their website
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Speaker 5: help of your donations, the Dream Center and iHeartMedia Los
Speaker 5: Angeles I've been working together to help victims affected by
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Speaker 5: donate and also Dream Center LA is going to be
Speaker 5: taking donations again today starting at nine am nine am
Speaker 5: to seven pm all day all week. Actually so it's
Speaker 5: in Echo Park. It's at twenty three oh one Bellevue
Speaker 5: it's a Los Angeles address, but it's in Echo Park
Speaker 5: and if you can donate, they sure need your donations
Speaker 5: at I was out there on Saturday and it was
Speaker 5: amazing the lines of cars like a half mile long
Speaker 5: of people who've lost everything, and Dream Center LA is
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Speaker 5: This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
Speaker 5: County Southland Weather from KFI, another round of dangerous Santa
Speaker 5: Ana wins will blow through with gus forty five to
Speaker 5: fifty five miles per hour for the Malibu coastal air
Speaker 5: and valleys. Eighty to one hundred miles per hour gusts
Speaker 5: are possible in the mountains. Low clouds clearing to sunny skies.
Speaker 5: Highs in the mid sixties at the beaches, mid to
Speaker 5: upper sixties for Metro LA Inland, Orange County. The valley's
Speaker 5: in i e fifties in the Annealoupe Valley, overnight loads
Speaker 5: in the thirties and forties. Then tomorrow high spout the
Speaker 5: same as today, and then we'll warm into the seventies
Speaker 5: Wednesday and Thursday It's fifty three in Anaheim, fifty four
Speaker 5: Redondo Beach, forty six in Woodland Hills, and fifty three
Speaker 5: in Inglewood. We lead local live from the KFI twenty
Speaker 5: four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
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